Start of TWW, Lava Burst was basically relegated to “Eh, if you need to move and you don’t have Stormbringer/Nature’s Swiftness/Spirtwalker’s Grace, use it if you have a proc” and it felt good. No more pretending to be a pseudo fire mage, I was a proper Stormbringer Shaman, electrocuting all my enemies.
Now, I’m reading guides and once more we’re back to flinging fireballs like we should be wearing cloth, and Chain Lightning/Lightning Bolt are back to being “use it if you have nothing else”. When did this change and why? I was so happy to finally get lava burst off my bars and go back to being a nature-powered sith lord of Azeroth like Shaman used to be, now I’m a crazed killer clown wannabe mage… and I no longer feel like a shaman at all.
This changed in our last balancing patch because it’s criminal to not wield all of the elements when your class is designed to be a master of the elements.
are you measuring extent as damage done? in that case sure - but as far as the kit goes ice (frost) is used quite a lot, wind is just nature (a lot), and water which is historically healing is also there
Pretty bad at the moment
spamming LB/CL gameplay is degenerate, as is any gameplay that encourages you to completely ignore a majority of your kit
frost shock has a long history of being a part of the ele kit.
it was only recently that ele design became so horrible you started ignoring 1/2 your spells and talents. the recent update was an attempt to make an ele sham use the elements.
I rather enjoyed the simplified rotation and chance to be what was attractive back in Classic - chucking big ol’ lightning. Stormbringer felt amazing for that.
Not optimal of course but it’s fine. Play without Mote and move that point elsewhere. Play the way you like and take talents accordingly that will Benefit the way you enjoy the class